Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-29

TIE Ohio & Mississippi at St. Louis on
the 2tst enlarged it's fields OF operations In
the rate-cuttIng line, and made rounu-
trim fare to Baltimore and Washington Oh
500. 25 being a cut of ST. The Louls'tle,
Evansville q st. Louis road, or wnat Is
known as the AIR Line, met the raIe' Du'
the Vandalia took no notice OF It.
HoS. W. r. MORRISON, who swas IN Chl-
cago recently, was visited by numoer OF
his political friends. In regard to making
the race for Congress in his own. district
newt wear he said il was little early 10
commence campaigning. but he was rather
inclined TO think he would be there Wheh
the time came. OF President Cleveland ne
said the indications wherever ne mao oeeh
were that he was growing stronger al the
time with the people and would conIinue "
crow until the next Presidential election
day.
PREsIDESr F. F. LEONARD, Of the Toledo,
Peoria IL Western, has filed with the ILL
nois Railroad and Warehouse Commission
an official report OF the ChatsWorbn acci-
dent 1t estimates from the numoer oI
tickets sold that there were 54O persons on
the train, OF whom eighty were dead. Inc
number injured was given as lol, ten Oh
whom were employed on the ROAD.
NEW complications were reported 10 nave
arisen at Chicago on the 21st which were
almost certain to create another passenger
war among the roads running east from
that city.
OAK LAWN RETREAT, a private insane
asvlum near Jacksonville, ILL.,, was de-
stroyed by fire recently. and the proprietor
seriously burned. No patients were hurt.
BY a natural gas explosion at Oil Center,
Wood County, O.. the other night, flowing
oil tanks and machinery were destroyed
and several persons badly burned.
DICK VAUN, who shot Captain Sam Six
killer at Muskogee, I. T., December "a, died
recently of wounds received from an Indian
policeman
NEAR Purcell, /. T., serious train wreck
occurred on the 21st. A working train was
run into by a light engine. The number OF
killed and injured was thought to be about
fifteen, but nothing definite was known.
Hon. E. B. WAsHBURN, formerly United
States Minister to France, was taken with
congestion of the brain at Chicago on the
21st and was in a precarious condition.
A. R. PARSONS, one of the condemned
has given to the press a
lengthy document in which he demands
either his freedom or execution.
ANOTHER railway horror on the Chicago,
Rock Island q Pacific almost happened at
Killar, near Peoria, Ill, on the Dist A
bridge over chasm fifty feet deep had
been burned out, but the fact was discov-
cred by a foreman. he went one way anu
tagged the passenger train while his wife
stopped one the other way.
POLICEMEN found gas pipe bomb at the
Cottage Grove Avenue car barn, Chicago,
the other morning. 1t was ten inches in
length and two inches in diameter.
P r. SCOTT, JR., son of Ex-Governor
Scott, of Arkansas, reported to the Chicago
police recently that he had been robbed OF
81. 500 in notes and $500 in money.
REV. ALFRED BEDDINGToN, a Baptist
minister, was shot and mortally wounded
by man named Glassmore on the line be-
tween the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations
recently. The murder was prompted by
jealousy.
The Typographical Union of Detroit,
Mich, has made demand for nine hours a
lay, without any reduction of wages. The
Printers Association, COM
posed of the ten largest job printing houses
n the city, has issued a circular refusing to
comply.
THE annual convention of the National
Association of ex-Prisoners of War began
IN Chicago on the 22d.
A COLD wave struck Abercrombie, Mimi,
On the 22d, the thermometer being only two